Brand Story - The packaging EPR laws in Oregon and Colorado mark a significant shift in how packaging waste is managed.

The United States is increasingly embracing Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws, which hold producers accountable for the full lifecycle of their products, particularly regarding packaging ...

The organization is the state’s initial PRO under its Packaging Waste and Cost Reduction Act, which establishes EPR for ...

Meanwhile, Oregon will be the first to implement its EPR for packaging law this year, with other states putting together crucial pieces of their own EPR policies that passed in previous years.

The Circular Action Alliance will facilitate reporting in three states in 2025 State EPR laws are implemented through a quasi-regulatory nonprofit entity known as a producer responsibility ...

EPR laws in Colorado, Oregon, and Maine task PROs with devising the amount of revenue needed and the fee schedule for collecting it. Unlike in the three other states with EPR laws, private ...

The answer is extended producer responsibility (EPR) legislation, which is now the law and in the process of being implemented in five states. EPR has been a success story in Europe and other ...

For years Johnson, CEO of Racine-based SC Johnson, has been pushing lawmakers to pass legislation to enhance the United States ... laws." "I'll give you an example: the labeling laws is part of ...

It was apparent at the hearing that the EPR legislation faces other hurdles ... the 11 chemical recycling facilities built in the United States are not operating at full capacity and could ...

Other states with similar emerging EPR laws include California ... the entity that imports the packaged item into the United States, or the entity that first distributes the packaging into ...